Roll guilds die out or their good members will leave when they get frustrated by the system. In roll guilds the most active players often lose the roll time and time again on an item they really want (and probably need more than a new/casual raider). It will go to some new guild member who got lucky. After this happens like 30 times, they are going to leave the guild lol. There is just no benefit to playing more, because RNG can literally prevent you from ever getting the item. When you lose your best/most active raiders, the guild is dead or heavily gimped.
With DKP there is typically an upper price ceiling on items, and you can figure out who is probably gunning for the same item with a similar DKP level as yourself. Unless you are trying to get the absolute best loot in the game like a Vulak Robe (in which case people do dump insane amounts of DKP), you can get the item you are looking for once you hit the DKP ceiling for that item, or bid a little higher than the ceiling to guarantee you win the bid.
I haven't seen a roll guild compete for any good raid content. They really only get a nibble when there are open server events or maybe quakes. They usually stick to low end raiding like PoSky, clearing Hate/Fear Trash, Fear Golems, HoT, Kael Arena, etc.
Most people prefer DKP because they get rewarded for their participation, where roll guilds do not reward participation. It's pretty simple. A lot of people see no point in showing up to a raid where they get nothing for the time spent. You always at least get DKP with a DKP guild, which can be spent later for an item you want. There are even methods outside of raiding that can net you DKP if you can't show up to raids as often, such as leveling alts, camping consumable items, etc.
Honestly I am not sure why people complain about the DKP system. Most items casual players would want do not go for an unobtainable amount of DKP. Just save up and buy. If you are super casual and want a Vulak Robe, you are just being greedy. It's no joke when I say there are maybe 5 Vulak Robes that drop per real life year. It's not fair for the players who dump a ton of time into this game to get shafted on an item like that simply due to RNG.
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